making news in america this morning, donald trump is hitting back at hillary clinton and the women accusing him of sexual advances. also a new interview with clinton says she felt like trump was stalking her on the debate stage. extreme weather, hurricane nicole slams bermuda. the rare storm tearing across that tiny island. new video of the damage just coming in. plus, bracing for days of several storms on the west coast. chaos in the courtroom. a judge leaves the bench, rips off his robe and gets involved in a scuffle. and a shark scare. a great white pounces on a cage, gets in between the bars with a diver inside. it is a cringeworthy scene

there. >> just thinking about it gives me chills. >> that story off mexico. here in the states good friday morning. it's a rough one in the political scene. donald and melania trump fighting back following a string of sexual assault allegations and taking direct aim at the accusers. >> donald trump is dismissing claims he groped and women without consent calling them outright lies and claims he has evidence to refute them. >> melon ya demanded a partial retraction. mrs. trump is denying she had an encounter with an accuser after the alleged assault but did not dispute the claims about her husband. abc's angelica spanos is here with the latest. angelica, what are we learning? >> reporter: donald trump continues to say that the deck is stacked against him in this election and denying every single word spoken from his accusers and now he's pointing the finger at the media, the clintons and says his campaign will show substantial evidence that the allegations are all

false. preposterous and ludicrous, the words donald trump used to defend himself against allegations of inappropriately touching women. >> these women are horrible people. they're horrible, horrible liars. >> reporter: one of those accusers, jessica leeds who first told "the new york times" trump groped her on an airplane back in the '80s recalled more details to cnn. >> did he actually kiss you. >> yeah, yeah. >> on the face or on the lips. >> all -- wherever he could find a landing spot, yes. >> these false attacks are absolutely hurtful. to be lied about, to be slandered, to be smeared so publicly and before your family that you love is very painful. >> reporter: his campaign planning an all-out assault on bill clinton and his past misconduct. >> they will lie, lie, lie, the clintons are criminals. >> but on the trail hillary clinton is unfazed and brought

out one of her most powerful weapons, michelle obama. >> i can't believe that i'm saying that a candidate for president of the united states has bragged about sexual assaulting women. it has shaken me to my core in a way that i couldn't have predicted. >> reporter: clinton let the first lady take aim at trump while she sat down with ellen degeneres. >> i don't think anyone has to think this election is over. we have to work really hard for the next 3 1/2 weeks because who knows. >> reporter: clinton saying she felt like she was being stalked on the debate stage. >> he was all wrought up. you could sense how much anger he had and so he was really trying to dominate and then literally stalk me around the stage. >> reporter: right now the clinton campaign is still dealing with fallout from the wikileaks releases. the newest, internal e-mails shows clinton's advisers persuading her to apologize for using a private e-mail server.

kendis, diane, back to you. >> the clinton campaign has yet to verify whether those latest e-mails are real. thank you. as trump's accusers continue to speak out ivanka made a rare solo campaign swing through pennsylvania taking part in two events attended mostly by women and refused though to address the sexual assault allegations against her father, just talking about politics in general and calling it bizarre and vicious. >> i thought that i was, you know, had sort of cut my teeth in new york real estate and, you know, could take sol punches, but this is a rough sport, politics. >> she talked about her father's child care plan and depicted him as a mentor saying she wanted to emulate him as a parent. in another news there is a lot of cleaning up on the island of bermuda in the aftermath of hurricane nicole. one guy stood out in the storm as its 115-mile-an-hour winds

roared across the island. the powerful storm knocked out to power to just about everyone and so far it's been restored to very few. what's left is spinning further into the atlantic. >> the northwest is now in the midst of a series of severe storms. high surf, strong winds and heavy rain hitting the region, forecasters say some wind gusts could reach hurricane strength and some could see more than a foot of rain, this is just the beginning. they are lining up in the pacific. a second storm rolls through tomorrow afternoon. it could bring widespread damage with wind gusts of over 80 miles an hour, flash flooding and possible mudslides. new drone video from north carolina showing the flooding emergency there. it's nowhere near over. that's the tar river still well out of its banks. north carolina's governor says parts of one town are still under up to 12 feet of water. all of it left behind by hurricane matthew and the death toll continues to rise at least 41 deaths now blamed on the storm and its aftermath. the man accused of setting

off bombs last month in new jersey and new york city has made his first court appearance. ahmad khan rahami entered not guilty pleas in connection with his shoot-out with new jersey police officers. now, because the 28-year-old is recovering from gunshot wounds he appeared via a video link from his hospital room. bail was set at $5.2 million. rahami has not yet been arraigned for the bombings. there was a stunning twist in the so-called new jersey bridgegate scandal. one that actually could have some serious consequences for governor chris christie. a judge has ruled that a citizens misconduct complaint against christie can go forward which means christie could face criminal indictments. the complaint accuses christie of allowing the bridge closure as political payback. christie's representatives say he will appeal. and president obama says he is the person in chief. he announced $300 million in

grants and also played with new gadgets including using a simulate story dock a spacecraft at the international space station. now this isn't the first time the president has shown how much he loves technology. >> i confessed i am a science geek. i'm a nerd. and i don't make any apologies for it. [ applause ] i don't make any apologies for it. it's cool stuff. >> the president also took a picture with a little science fan. 10-month-old rowan wright in a nasa shirt. >> rowan will be going to mars for us someday. still ahead another airline is dealing with computer issues causing delays overnight all across the country. something new on board. how other airlines are now taking extra steps to prevent a disaster from overheating smartphones. plus, not in his courtroom. air judge rips off his robe when a defendant gets aggressive.

friends and fans remembered prince at a tribute concert in st. paul, minnesota. the headliners included stevie wonder and chaka khan and there was a video message from president obama. he died in april of an dental overdose. he was 57. united airlines is blaming a computer glitch for systemwide delays last night. the company is now apologizing saying there was an issue with its weight reporting system. at one point overnight the website and app also went down. the issues have since been resolved but delays could linger. this is the third systemwide computer failure for a major airline since july. at least three airlines will

now have a fire containment bag system on some flights. in case electronic devices catch fire. delta, virgin america and alaska airlines are putting them first on overseas flights. they're in a variety of sizes because there's incidents other than cell phones. other airlines considering them as well. miami has a third zika zone confirmed in five people in the one square heil area. two women and three men, it's a setback coming less than a month after another miami neighborhood was declared free of the virus. florida's governor says his state has not received any federal funds to fight zika even though money has been approved by congress. hp is cutting more jobs and plans to cut up to 4,000 over the next three years. it was formed a year ago when hewlett-packard was broken up. hp has 50,000 employees. the cuts will be made across the board. on the flip side amazon says

it will hire 0% more seasonal workers than last year as retailers expect growth this holiday season. amazon expects to hire roughly 120,000 seasonal workers and last year about one in seven stayed on for a regular full time job. this year the online retailer says that should be even higher. when we come back a frightening situation for many parents. investigators say he's cold and calculated. the desperate search for a serial ab ducter who targets kids. a great white jumps into a shark cage. see what happens to the diver inside.

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embers. no structures damaged. checking morning road conditions, flooding possible for the northwest and into california because of those storms we mentioned earlier. roads will also be wet from nbc up to kentucky. some weather-related airport delays possible in san francisco, memphis as well as dallas. testimony resumes today in georgia in the trial of ross harris, he's accused of leaving his 22-month-old son cooper in a hot car to die. >> a day care worker described the routine for little cooper usually his dad would drop him off in the morning and mom would pick him up in the afternoon. then came that horrible day in 2014 when his mother arrived as usual to get her son. >> i told her i was like, well, what are you doing here, cooper is not here. >> and during the course of that what was her demeanor as far as -- >> she was confused. she looked frantic. >> prosecutors say ross harris intentionally killed cooper by leaving him in a sweltering car for hours possibly because harris was being unfaithful. his lawyers say cooper's death

was a tragic accident. if convicted harris faces life in prison. this morning the fbi is stepping up efforts to try to find a man investigators say is a serial kidnapper targeting young children. the suspect was caught on surveillance video walking down an ally wearing a hooded sweatshirt. investigators believe he took a 6-year-old girl from her cleveland home last may and also try abducting a 10-year-old in february. both girls survived their ordeals. a 911 operator in houston is accused 6 hanging up on people who desperately needed help. this woman has been fired and authorities say she may have hung up on thousands of callers over a six-month period. in one case the caller was a man reporting a robbery at a store where a clerk was killed. officials want to know how a silverback gore rill escaped its enclose sure at in a london zoo. he never made it into the main part of the zoo and was

tranquilized and recaptured after less than an hour but zoo visitors were locked in a cafeteria for their own safety. new vodka shows an unusual scene in a michigan courtroom. watch as judge john mcbain growing increase will goly frustrated with a defendant. he stars mouthing off and talking him right into a jail sentence. when an officer tries to escort him out, things get physical. that's when the judge jumps down from the bench, rips off his robe and rushes in to help the officer. >> put your hands behind your back. tase his [ bleep ] right now. >> the defendant didn't end up getting tased. the judge said it's the first time he's ever had to do something like this but says he doesn't regret it. court officials say the judge didn't do anything wrong and just maintaining order in the court. the super bowl champion denver broncos have lost two straight games after being defeated by the san diego chargers. but there was another one played as well.

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♪ your friday pulse kicks off with a shark surprise off the coast of mexico. >> you could say that. >> that's creepy. so first a 13-foot great white got into a shark cage that is supposed to keep the predator out. it injured itself against a bars and couldn't wait to get out. >> oh, my god. >> eventually the shark does get out. look at this. there was a diver in the cage at the time. >> oh, my god. >> the diver gets out a moment later after keeping very, very still while the shark was in the cage with him and luckily that diver was not hurt. >> but he did have to change his wet suit after that. >> oh. and then let's shift on to a cuter animal, shall we. this one lives in an animal sanctuary in thailand. >> a park staffer is her bff

apparently. a human named derek when she spotted him taking a dip in the river, she thought he was in trouble and rushed in to save him. >> handlers at the sanctuary say as a baby the elephant was tortured into becoming a performing animal that is until she was rescued and brought to the sanctuary where derek took a special interest in her and the two apparently bonded for life. >> but how smart of her to know that, you know, he might be in trouble and then rushed in there. >> you could see him hugging her trunk and saying thank you, thank you even though he was okay. >> yeah. finally, our ken bone-free "pulse" hall luau admittedly ends with skepticism calling it one customer's epic fail in an electronics store in england. >> watch him in a dark outfit that makes his way over to check out fancy wide screen tvs just like anybody else and then -- >> that happened. whoa. that's more than $6,000 worth of

televisions hitting the floor. we don't know if the guy had to pay for any of the damage. but some of the tvs were curb tvs so pretty pricey ones. >> you got to feel bad for him, though, it would be so easy to do something like that. >> really? no. >> you move an arm and touch it a little too rough. oh. i'm not paying for that. >> just on cue. >> i think that worked. >> our graphics department. more news after this. >> happy friday. >> i'm not baying.

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for hillary clinton at a florida rally attended by 1600 people. unfortunately for gore a recount showed it was only 1300 people. trump urged his supporters to vote on the wrong date. >> so go and register. make sure you get out and vote november 28th. >> no, wait -- >> thought it was november 28th so the election is rigged. it should be november 28th. >> she's running as the first female president has a sitting first lady and -- >> below 40%. >> is that a question? >> this is a question. what are you talking about? you think hillary should be further ahead because she's running as the first female president. if running as the first female president was an advantage it probably would have happened before 2016. >> edgar mitchell wanted to meet

with hillary clinton's campaign chairman to discuss alien life. trust me, if there were aliens i already would have asked them for money. dear zorb. >> i had seven twitter to followers two of which were my grandmother because she had to remake it because she forgot her password to 700. >> his grandmother follows him twice on twitter. this guy is so farrelly appealing. you know hill re's campaign is analyzing everything about him and she will show up at the third debate in a red sweater and fake mustache. what are you talking about? i've always looked like this. >> that's hilarious. >> almost made it throughout without a ken bone reference. yet we love him. >> up to 238,000 followers on twitter. >> big debate on wednesday. more fodder for the camics, i'm sure. >> who will be next week's went don't? >> that's what's making news in >> good morning everyone it is

4:30 a.m., friday, october 14. tam is off, erin o'hern joins us. >> we're following breaking news this morning. two suvs crash on the boulevard overnight killing two teens. >> the death of a teenage boy inside a philadelphia education facility is under investigation we'll have a live report with the latest developments. >> a controversial find at an iconic cheese steak shop is gone. we'll tell you why it was